Category: tech
- Not looking at Twitter ()
Earlier this year, I deleted Twitter from my phone. More recently, Twitter’s own actions broke my Twitter client. That same week, there was a rush of people switching to Mastodon, and I went there as well, returning to my created-ages-ago but mostly-neglected account. I’m in 2 minds about all this. The main reason I deleted Twitter from my […]
- Pick a domain that’s easy to say ()
A tip for anyone who’s thinking of creating any kind of web project: if you intend to register a domain name to go with it, pick one that’s easy to say out loud. The easy way to do that is to pretend that you’re two years into the future, and that your web project has […]
- Say no to notifications ()
The only way I’ve found to make Yosemite shut up pic.twitter.com/urJgRzcWsb — Giles Turnbull (@gilest) December 3, 2014 I switch off notifications from as many applications as possible, on as many devices as possible, as often as possible. I do it because I don’t want or need to know when I get incoming email. I’ll find out […]
- Slack doesn’t kill email (it’s just text in a different box) ()
This is a little rant about communication, heavily disguised as a rant about Slack. But it’s not really a rant about Slack. First, some numbers: Right now, I am a member of 7 different Slack teams. I’ve got outstanding invites to 2 more teams that I’ve not responded to. The team I spend most time […]
- The internet column archive ()
Every week for over a decade, I wrote a syndicated column for the Press Association. I started writing it while still on the PA staff, and continued after leaving to go freelance. In April 2014, I resigned the gig as I was too busy with my new job at GDS. This folder of 589 text files contains my (incomplete) archive […]
- The [gorjuss] mailing list ()
[gorjuss] began in September 1999, kept going for a couple of years, died for a few more, and got revived in 2012, then died again. I’m quite fond of it. It was deliberately, stubbornly retro: sent in plain text via a Mailman list, archived in zero-style HTML on the web by Pipermail. It looked and […]
- The future of social networking ()
(This is a draft of a feature I wrote for PA.) No-one ever made a movie about Stephan Paternot. Who? You might well ask. Stephan was the co-founder of The Globe, the Facebook of the 1990s. If you don’t remember The Globe, you’re not alone. It was briefly the biggest, most exciting web project in […]
- A template letter for web developers to send clients regarding the new EU cookie law ()
The text below is my attempt to write a simple template letter that web developers can send to clients, explaining the implications of the new cookie law. It is a work in progress and may be changed at any time. It is published here without copyright and as a work in the Public Domain. (Why not Creative Commons? […]
- wearenine ()
Members of the (void) mailing list assembled in London for a few drinks and some nonsense chitchat. More photos
- Blog’s what you make it ()
I get annoyed by articles I see telling people “how to blog”, or advising them of “the rules of blogging”, or “what your blog needs to have”. All of it’s bloggocks. A weblog is whatever you want it to be. Comments, feeds, blogrolls, datestamps, whatever, none of it matters. Your blog doesn’t matter to anyone […]